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Healthcare Technical Consulting Director - Financial Performance, EPM, Data Analytics & Visualization

Huron Consulting · Chicago, IL · Full time

Posted Apr 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 5, 2026

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Tell me about an EPM or financial analytics solution you architected for a health system. What did it change for finance?

What they are checking: Whether they have designed healthcare finance technology that leaders actually used for decisions.

Tell me about a time data quality problems threatened a project. How did you handle it?

What they are checking: Whether they plan for messy source data and keep stakeholders informed when problems appear.

How do you build a team that has both healthcare finance knowledge and technical data skills?

What they are checking: Directors staff and grow teams, and this blend of skills is hard to find.

How have you helped win new work in this space?

What they are checking: Whether they can shape proposals and earn client trust in pursuits, which directors are expected to do.

What would you do

A client wants a dashboard for everything. How do you help them decide what actually matters?

What they are checking: Whether they can focus visualization work on the few metrics that drive decisions.

The CFO and CIO disagree on who owns the analytics platform. How do you help them settle it?

What they are checking: Whether they can navigate governance tension between finance and IT without taking sides blindly.

About the work

How would you design a cost accounting and margin reporting architecture for a multi-hospital system?

What they are checking: Whether they understand healthcare cost data and how to structure it for service line and physician reporting.

How do you connect EHR, general ledger and payroll data into one financial performance view?

What they are checking: Integration across clinical and financial systems is the hard part, and they want real experience with it.

How do you choose between EPM platforms like Oracle, Workday Adaptive or Strata for a health system?

What they are checking: Whether they recommend tools based on client needs, existing systems and budget rather than habit.

How do you help a client move from monthly static reports to self-service analytics?

What they are checking: Whether they think about training, data trust and governance, not just the technology.

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The full job description

As published by Huron Consulting.

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The Director Healthcare Digital Financial Performance, EPM, Data Analytics Architecture & Visualization is responsible for helping healthcare organizations improve financial performance through enterprise performance management (EPM), advanced analytics, and executive-level visualization. As a senior consulting leader, you will specialize in advising and delivering solutions using Strata (Strata Decision Technology), Workday Adaptive Planning & Oracle EPM integrating these platforms with clinical, operational and financial data to drive margin improvement, cost transparency, planning accuracy and financial accountability. The Director serves as a trusted advisor to CFOs, finance executives and enterprise leadership leading financial transformation engagements that connect strategy, planning and performance with actionable insights. In this role, you will translate financial and operational challenges into EPM-enabled, data-driven solutions with measurable ROI. As the Healthcare Technical Consulting Director, you will: • Design and advise on scalable, auditable financial analytics and EPM architectures leveraging Strata, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, and Microsoft Fabric • Lead integration of EPM solutions with EHR/EMR, ERP, revenue cycle, claims, and supply chain systems • Establish standards for financial data models, metric definitions, reconciliation, lineage, and master data alignment • Ensure solution designs support enterprise financial governance, auditability, and long-term scalability • Lead development of healthcare FP&A and performance analytics, including cost allocation, contribution margin and profitability, service line and provider performance, workforce productivity, and revenue cycle insights • Enable rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and what‑if analysis across planning and performance platforms • Support value-based care and contract performance analysis using cost and margin insights • Embed financial insights into finance, operational, and strategic decision‑making workflows • Design and oversee CFO-level dashboards, board-ready scorecards, and performance management views across EPM and BI platforms • Translate complex, multi-platform financial data into clear, decision‑ready visual stories • Define visualization and reporting standards focused on accuracy, transparency, and actionability • Advise on financial data governance frameworks, including metric standardization, stewardship, and master data alignment • Ensure compliance with healthcare financial reporting standards, audit requirements, and internal controls. • Partner with IT, audit, and compliance teams to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security across EPM environments • Contribute to growth of the healthcare financial analytics and EPM consulting practice through solution development and delivery • Develop thought leadership on healthcare cost transparency, FP&A maturity, and EPM modernization • Lead and mentor cross-functional consulting teams, including financial analysts, EPM specialists, data architects, and analytics engineers • Provide strategic and technical guidance to ensure high-quality, finance-focused delivery Required: • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or related field; advanced degree (e.g., MBA) highly desirable • 10+ years of experience in healthcare financial analytics, EPM or performance management with significant experience in consulting or professional services • Proven track record delivering margin improvement, cost transparency, and planning transformation initiatives • Hands-on experience implementing or advising on Strata (Strata Decision Technology) including cost accounting, service line analytics and performance management • Workday Adaptive Planning experience – budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, scenario modeling • Oracle EPM experience with financial consolidation, planning, reporting and data governance • Strong understanding of healthcare domains (RCM, cost accounting, service lines, value-based care) • Advanced proficiency with BI and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker) • Strong SQL and financial data modeling skills with experience integrating EPM platforms with ERP, EHR RCM and enterprise data platforms • Willingness to travel as required for client engagements Position Level Director Country United States of America